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Hi all I ve been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now He s getting on in the years a couple years from retirement and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger His mother tongue is French but he s been teaching at...

As a native English speaker well perhaps not entirely native I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U S at the tender age of 7 I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language and...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply I do appreciate it I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

There are also many typos Adonis 1 First reported by Spanish explorers in 1796 the asphalt in California s La was mined commercial for many years commercially I don t understand what it s all about 2 New York City s theatrical district was concentrated the Bowery from 1860 to 1875 and around 1900...

G grammar SP spelling T TENSES P punctuation PR preposition WO word order V vocabulary I am 46 years old and married for twenty years We have got three children one soon and two daughters There are six eight and eleven years old I am an electrical engineer and worked for a company who...

Please help me correct the following passage correct and clssify the error as G grammar Sp spelling WO word order P punctuation V vocabulary PR prepositions T tense I had been in London for about four days I saw the Tower of London the Tower Bridge the Big Ben and the other famous places of this...

In addition in Latin which is where English gets its who whom distribution word order is not fixed so the purpose of a suffix e g m and so on is to tell us the word s grammatical function e g subject object etc In terms of traditional grammar whom is the more preferred as the object of a...

Hello again Mask I musunderstood your question but I see what you mean now Just like many other English words than belongs to more than one class It is a preposition in sentences like She is taller than me and it is a conjunction in sentences like She is taller than I am In other words than is...

It s a shame that your school like too many others in this country decided that the study of grammar was dispensable It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don t know the technicalities of your own language s grammar Not everyone would agree with that last...